Apparatus for waving hair



I Jan. 1, 1946. J. A. .KOLS 2,392,157

APPARATUS FOR WAVING HAIR Filed March 27, 1944 INVENTOR..

Jacob A. Ko/s. B

Patented Jan. 1, 1946 STATES PAT OFF ICE memes. FOB- wavmn rum Jacob. A.non, Columbus, Ohio Application March. 27, 19M, serial No... 52am; 1:Clainis. (.01; 1321-241- My invention. relates to. an apparatus-1 {orwaitin; baht; It; has; to: do. more particuiarm, with at apparatus. for:ztxzetching the hainfrom the tips to; the scalp; in; such.- a mannerthat a. better curl: on wane issobtainedm In. the: pasta. vamions;types: of permanent; wavmg: methods and apparatus have. been used torthe. hairs prepaxatory toheating operation, Whilethss winding stretched.the hair to a, limited extentv the fnli importance of the stretching wasnotrcalizeda. Furthermore, the was not cognizant of: the factthatstretched had! cmth'more. easfly and holds the curl longer; In present.day permanent wavin the protector: clamp has the hair drawn through it.and bn stxetclsr the. hair much during the winding: on the: mandrilwould loosen the and mommy also! be uncomfortable to thepemm obtaining.the wave. 'Ihe. art.

therefione am not.- have: a-

which. would perm-it. the tensiornng; on the hairlongifiudinallw to theextent which I employ in h m method. In the past, with; regard. to; hairwhich. is; very fine, it was. necessary to; use a strong chemicalsolution for softening the hair previous to the; winding andheatingoperations; Theheat generates steam which sometimes: bums the scalp ofthe person being, worked. om, and; the longer the heat is. left. on thehair more; danger there. is of mowing; the.v hair as will as: the:Thisis also: true; when. the scalp is. under tension due to. pulling, onthe hair. thus raising: the skin of the scalp making. it. tender andmore receptive to the forming: of blisters.

Another". object. of. my inventiom is. to. provide an apparatus: forstretching. the. hair which. will not; pull on the scalp; of the. personbeing: treated and. will. not. loosen the roots at the: ham

Another object of my intention is. tw provide a. hair stretching device:in which the. hair is stnetehed a number oi times; item the; of: thehair. to thescalp before the hectic: applied.

Another object: of my invention. is. that 15, paid-- nae. a. hairstretching device which will be.- easy toopenate. and inexpensive tmconstruct;

in its preferred. form my comprises the. method of; the hain bystretching the hair at. intervals or in. shoxiz sections: from. the tipsof the hair inwardly to. the scalp. This method results in a. muchbetter" curl, and the curl is. more permanent than: the usual type nowobtained. in; present. day permanent waving.

The use of. the natural resiliency of the. hair in curling; has markedadvantages over the rior art of winding the the tips inwardly in that a.much weaker solution can he used? to soften; the. ham" and. less:heating time. is needed. hair has a: natural resiliency and 15' have?found: that; when. itls stretched. it; can he. more readily curled;Izprovide am appanatus for stretching the; hair: of such a nature thatthere is". no pull:v on; the scalp. I. accomplishythis stretching" bplacingz betweenqthe scalp: and: the winding mandril a. pain ofgripping: members which hold the. against;- movement, while the winding;is taking place; thus stretching the hair between the. point; or. the.gripping member and the winding mandrili. Since there no tension on thehair between. the: gripping members and the. scalp 13'. maystretch, the.hair to its greatest went.- as it he 3; wound: on; the mandril. Thissnatching; operation is-repeated a. number of: times: t an the. tips at.the. hair to the scalp, and time as the; hair is on the. mandtil. it isstzzetched tom gxeatesti extent throughout. have; tmmd: imam. actual:experience: that hair stretched; im the manner: set above. will-curlmore: easil the heating. time now needed to whim a, permanent wave: isconsiderably Various other objects and. advantages will be apparentfirzom the followingdescription and. the drawing wherein. similarcharacters 01 reference used to. designate. comfespondlng, pants andwherein:

Figuze; 1 is a. top.- planvlewoi: my cunllng device, which. is partlybroken away.

Figure 2, a. side elevationalj view oi the prefenced: form 012 mycurling: device showing. a

. mandrill mounted theneon.

Figure 3 a sectional view taken along, line of Figure 2; showing, the.handle structure.

Figure: 4. a. perspective; viewoi. m stretch.- ing. device. showing thehandle and. the. windin mandril as well as the gripping l ws.

Figure: 5 is; a. sectional view showing the opera..- tion of; mg devicewith reference. to. a lock. of hair held by the. gripping jaws. andbeing wound on the; mandni-L Figure 6 is a perspectivev view.illustrating; my

method. of cnrlingthe hair with my curling device.

Referring, more. particularly to the drawing, I disclose. a. haircurling. device generally indicated; by the numeral 1. whichv is.provided. with a handle portion on one end thereof and gripping. Jawsdisposed. on the. opposite. end. The handle portion consists of: twoparts. 1 and 3,. which are assembled. together. in av manner. to be;described; The handle part & lnterfltsinto the. handle. pant sure isreleased they return as shown in Figure 1. I preferably show a series 3as best shown in Figures 1 and 3 and is held in place by means ofretaining pins 4 which extend through the handle parts 2 and 3. 'Thepins 4 extend through slots 4a formed in the handle 7 the handle part 2by means of screws 6. The; outer ends of these springs 5 are providedwith.

turned up portions 5a that bear against the in tening solution and. thescalp protector clamp I6 is suitably positioned at the scalp as shown"in Figures 5 and 6. The hair is drawn through the jaw members land *8and is clamped into position on the mandril l3 between the swingingtongue member l5. The clamping jaws l and 8 are then tightened bymeansof the handle of the device and the hair is held securely at the point 9while the winding mandril is turned by means of the key I4, "Itw'ill be;.apparent that the'hair is. stretched between;the:z gripping portion 9and the mandril l3. After the hair is suffi ner'side wall of the handlemember 3. -.When the I parts 2 and 3 are squeezed together thesprings 5tend to flatten or how out'and when the presto normal position ofretaining pins 4 which aid in guiding the ban"- dles 2 and 3 evenly whenpressure is exerted thereon, thus eliminating any sticking. actionthat'may occur. Two springs 5 are shown with V linthe handle but more orfewer can be used dee pending on the structure of the handle.

The ends of the handle members 2 and 3 are provided with a pair of jawmembers 1 and 8 'which form the hair gripping members that aremovedhorizontally toward each other whenthe handle members 2 and 3 arecompressed. 'The jaw members 1 and 8 are provided with a knurled innergripping surface'9 which tends to grip the hair. The member 1 is solidand square incross a section as best shown in Figure 5 while member 8 ischannel formedas best shown in Figure 1'.

"Jaw member 8 is provided witha movable mem-- berlll Supported thereinso that it can be moved inwardly in thechannel portion of the jaw 8 ifexcessive pressure or if an uneven amount of 7 hair is fed between anyportion'of the'jaw mem bers and 3. This moving action is accomplished-by means of spring members II which are'suitablymounted and spaced onthe member 10, as

' best shown in Figures 1 and 5. The jaw-member 8 being channel shapedallows the excessive pressure to be absorbed by thesprings- II as shownin Figures 1 and 5. This moving actionis necessary in order that if alock of hair of ununiform or uneven thickness is drawn between themember "land the member In therew'ill be an even "gripping action on-theentire lock of hair. Thus; the springs II will also force-the movingmember 10 outwardly when part 'of'the" strand of hair is thinlydistributed. Onepfthe'main disad-M vantages of prior art winders was dueto the 5 structure of the gripping member. Anyone I skilled in the artwill readily understand the utility of my new structure. Jaw member 'Iis provided with two 'iorked members l2 that 'are adapted to hold themandril' l3jwhile thehair is being wound thereon. Thisma'ndril issupported in the usual manner-ahd'has a winding key l4 on its outer-end.A swinging tongue member l5 is pivoted to the mandril and the outer endsof the hair are first clamped beneath the tongue member preparatory to.the winding operation.

'As shown in Figures 5 and 6 I'employa scalp jcl'amp protector 16. ofthe usual type't'o' which Tithe winder is affixedwhen the hairis woundup close to the scalp.

HaV ngthusdescribed the details of my curling device with reference toFigures 5and6, I

w ll d c ib th e erat n a d .m 'ih i 'q 5-, n .Zthe same. The 'hair'isfirst treated'with a sofis understood that my apparatus can all types ofwaves, including machine, machine'- ciently stretched the pressure onthe handle member is partly. relieved, more hair is thenpulled'thro'ughthe jaws and then againtightened so that another stretching operationwill take place betweenthe point 9 and the mandril i3. It will be notedfrom Figure 5 that there is absolutely no pressure on the scalp duringthis stretching operation since the gripping action takes place at thepoint of thevgripping jaws. Thus, I stretch the hair'many times in theman-' ner set forth above by using. a conventional mandril mounted onthe gripping jaws as pre'-' viously indicated. After the hair .isstretched and wound on the mandril up to the clamp [6 the mandril isremoved and placedin theholder. of

' the conventional type'shown: in Figure 5 and heat is then applied inthe usual manner. Because of the hair being stretched throughout it willnot be necessary to apply heat as long'a's'in'present day waving. I havefound that'stretched haircurls more readily and. permanently and withless heating time to curl it. I It will-be seen that I provide :a methodand apparatus for curling and stretching hair throughout lwh'ich' hasnot'to' my 7 knowledge been done in the-past andfurther which willreduce the amount and'strength' of'the softening solution as well asconsiderably-reduce theheating time required for curling-hair. It

7 less, and the wave'known as the cold wave.

claim is:

Having thus described my-invent ion, what I l. .A hair stretching deviceof th -type described comprising a two-piece movable handle and a pairof gripping jaws disposed on one end of each of said handleportiona'm'eansfor nor mally holding the gripping jaws in spacedrelation to each other, said means comprising-spring members mounted insaidhandle, said-gripping jaws adapted to be closed bypressure exertedon the handle members so as' to firmly grip a lock of hair passedtherebetween; a rotatable winding mandril mounted on one of said jaws,said rotatable winding mandril having means for gripping the hair sothat th hair may be stretched from the point ofthe gripping jaws andsaid mandril.

2. A hair curling device of the type-described having gripping membersdisposed at one end and a handle disposed at the other endys'ai'd handlebeing of two-part construction and having spring members mounted thereinfor normally holding said gripping members away from each other, saidgripping members adapted to be closed by pressure exerted on said handlemembers; said .gripping members having uneven biting-surfaces which willgrip the; hair. positively, a rotatable mandril mounted on one of saidgripping members and parallel thereto andhaving means adapted'to gripthe tips of the hair so that it'maybes tretched as it is being'wound onthefrotatablemandr 3. A hair curling device. of. thetypejdescribdcomprising .a handle member, gripping jawsdis;

be used on posed at one end of said handle member, said handle being oftwo-part construction and having spring members mounted therein fornormally holding said gripping members away from each other, saidgripping members adapted to be closed by pressure exerted on said handlemembers, one of said gripping jaws being solid in cross section, theother said gripping jaw being hollow, means disposed within said hollowgripping jaw to takeup the gripping surface when an uneven amount ofhair passes between said gripping jaws, a rotatable mandril mounted onone of said gripping jaws on which the hair is held and wound.

4. A structure according to claim 3 wherein said take-up means of thegripping surface comprises a pair of spring members mounted on the backof said gripping member which flatten out when an uneven amount of hairpasses between said gripping jaws.

5. A curling device of the type described comprising a rotatablemandril, a pair of hair gripping jaws carried below and parallel to saidmandril, a handle for actuating said jaws, said jaws being supported inopposing relationship at one end of said handle and being adapted togrip hair passed between said jaws, means on the mandril for holding thetips of the hair so that it may be stretched between the gripping jawsand the mandril and then wound on said mandril in such a manner that itwill not pull the hair loose from the scalp.

6. A hair curling device of the type described comprising a pair ofgripping jaws, a two-part handle member for supporting said jaws at oneend thereof in opposing relationship, sa d jaws adapted to grip a lockof hair therebetween when pressure is applied to said handle to bringthe jaws together, means disposed within said handle to normallymaintain th jaws open, means disposed within one of said jaws toequalize the pressure when an uneven amount of hair is fed through saidgripping jaws.

'7. A hair curling device of the type described comprising anarticulated handle, a pair of parallel gripping jaws supported at oneend of said handle, means disposed within said handle for opening andclosing said opposing jaws by pressure exerted on the handle member soas to firmly grip a lock of hair passed between said jaws, a rotatablewinding mandril mounted on one of said jaws, said mandril being parallelto said gripping jaws and having means for gripping hair in order tostretch it between the gripping jaws and the.

mandril in such a manner that it will not pull the hair loose from thescalp.

JACOB A. KOLS.

